UNITED STATES
Washington Post
By Caleb K. Bell| Religion News Service
Updated: Wednesday, February 13
There will be 11 Americans among the 118 Roman Catholic cardinals who will convene in the Sistine Chapel in mid-March to elect the next pope. They range from leaders of major archdioceses to retired prelates to top officials in the Vatican bureaucracy.
Here’s a look at the American “princes of the church” who will vote for the next leader of the world’s 1.2 billion Catholics:
Raymond L. Burke, prefect of the Supreme Tribunal of the Apostolic Signatura
Age: 64
Born: June 30, 1948 in Richland Center, Wis.
Education: Catholic University of America (Washington, D.C.), Pontifical Gregorian University (Rome)
Ordained a priest: 1975 in Rome
Posts held: bishop of La Crosse, Wis. (1994-2003); archbishop of St. Louis, Mo. (2004-2008); prefect of the Apostolic Signatura (2008-present)
Elevated to cardinal: 2010 by Pope Benedict XVI
Note: This is an Abuse Tracker excerpt. Click the title to view the full text of the original article. If the original article is no longer available, see our News Archive.